Margret Selting
List of John Benjamins publications in which Margret Selting is involved.
Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas
Edited by Friederike Kern and Margret Selting
In recent years, ethnic ways of speaking by young people with migrant background have become an important research object in sociolinguistics; work on these ways of speaking has been prospering in many European countries. This work is continued in the present volume, with the aim of bringing… read more[Studies in Language Variation, 8] 2011. vi, 321 pp.
Prosody in Interaction
Edited by Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Elisabeth Reber and Margret Selting
Prosody is constitutive for spoken interaction. In more than 25 years, its study has grown into a full-fledged and very productive field with a sound catalogue of research methods and principles. This volume presents the state of the art, illustrates current research trends and uncovers potential… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 23] 2010. xxi, 406 pp.
Syntax and Lexis in Conversation: Studies on the use of linguistic resources in talk-in-interaction
Edited by Auli Hakulinen and Margret Selting
This volume is a collection of current work at the interface of linguistics and conversation analysis. The focus is on linguistic items in their action contexts: syntactic structures and lexical items in data from natural conversations in six European languages: Danish, English, Finnish, German,… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 17] 2005. viii, 406 pp.
Studies in Interactional Linguistics
Edited by Margret Selting and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Current interactional linguistic research appears to be crystallizing around systematic themes, which are all represented in this collection of papers. In the first section, where the relation between language and interaction is viewed from the perspective of language structure, several articles… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 10] 2001. viii, 438 pp.
2024 Introducing new perspectives in interactional linguistic research New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research, Selting, Margret and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
Since Interactional Linguistics (IL) is still a relatively recent approach to the study of language in talk-in-interaction, this introduction will first briefly outline how IL came about, what its current state is, and what it is characterized by. Then we will go into more detail on the new… read more
2011 Prosody and unit-construction in an ethnic style: The case of Turkish German and its use and function in conversation Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas, Kern, Friederike and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 131–159 | Article
This paper presents some results of the projects on Turkish
German that we have carried out at the University of Potsdam, Germany, starting from
2004. Our empirical data from telephone conversations between young people of
Turkish-German background from Berlin show that prosody plays an… read more
2010 Affectivity in conversational storytelling: An analysis of displays of anger or indignation in complaint stories Pragmatics 20:2, pp. 229–277 | Article
This paper reports on some recent work on affectivity, or emotive involvement, in conversational storytelling. After presenting the approach, some case studies of the display and management of affectivity in storytelling in telephone and face-to-face conversations are presented. The analysis… read more
2010 Prosody in interaction: State of the art Prosody in Interaction, Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar, Elisabeth Reber and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 3–40 | Article
This paper gives an overview of the field of prosody in interaction, classifying research areas and questions as they have developed since the start of the field in the mid 1980s. The overview is organized by the following questions:1. What is prosody?2. Why should scholars and students concerned… read more
2009 Communicative style The Pragmatics of Interaction, D’hondt, Sigurd, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 20–39 | Article
2005 Introduction Syntax and Lexis in Conversation: Studies on the use of linguistic resources in talk-in-interaction, Hakulinen, Auli and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Miscellaneous
2005 Syntax and prosody as methods for the construction and identification of turn-constructional units in conversation Syntax and Lexis in Conversation: Studies on the use of linguistic resources in talk-in-interaction, Hakulinen, Auli and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 17–44 | Article
2004 The 'upward' staircase intonation contour in the Berlin vernacular: An example of the analysis of regionalized intonation as an interactional resource Sound Patterns in Interaction: Cross-linguistic studies from conversation, Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth and Cecilia E. Ford (eds.), pp. 201–231 | Article
2001 Introducing Interactional Linguistics Studies in Interactional Linguistics, Selting, Margret and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article
2001 Communicative style Handbook of Pragmatics: 1999 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
2001 Fragments of units as deviant cases of unit production in conversational talk Studies in Interactional Linguistics, Selting, Margret and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (eds.), pp. 229–258 | Article
1996 On the interplay of syntax and prosody in the constitution of turn-constructional units and turns in conversation Interaction-based studies of language, Ford, Cecilia E. and Johannes Wagner (eds.), pp. 371–388 | Article
1992 Intonation as a Contextualization Device: Case Studies on the Role of Prosody, Especially Intonation, in Contextualizing Story Telling in
Conversation The Contextualization of Language, Auer, Peter and Aldo Di Luzio (eds.), pp. 233–258 | Article